COAST. [_Amused._] Bully for you, Louise! getting generous in your old age. LOUISE. It would ruin us socially if it got out! COAST. Oh, I see! MOLES. Mr. Carley said it was _sure_, ma'am. [COAST _laughs a rather coarse laugh._ STEVEN. For heaven's sake, Coast! Go away, Moles. [MOLES _goes out Left._ COAST. [_To_ STEVEN.] Are they holding on for you? STEVEN. They said they'd give me till to-morrow to put up more security. [_Sits Right._ COAST. What do you need? [_No answer._ LOUISE. How much more security, Steve? [_Goes to_ STEVE. STEVEN. Say a hundred and fifty thousand. [COAST _whistles_. LOUISE. He'd better hold on, Sam, hadn't he; what do you think of the stock? COAST. Don't ask _me_. LOUISE. We've got _to risk it_, anyway. Use some of my bonds, Steve. STEVEN. Louise! LOUISE. Yes, I mean it, we must. STEVEN. You don't understand me--we can't use your security. LOUISE. Why not? STEVEN. [_Rising and half turning away._] Not--again. LOUISE. How do you mean "again"? STEVEN. Your money is all there, all, already buried in it! LOUISE. _All_ my money? _All_ of it! STEVEN. Yes, I wanted to win back your mother's, I wanted-- [_Interrupted._ LOUISE. [_Beside herself._] You wanted! You wanted!! You wanted!!! To ruin us, that is what I should say you wanted to do!--Do you mean to say, behind my back, you've gambled away every cent I have, as well as all my mother's money!?! GEORGIANA. No! it's not possible--Steve! [_Comes between_ STEVEN _and_ LOUISE. STEVEN. When did you come in, Georgy? LOUISE. Georgy! [_No answer; she continues hysterically._] He can't deny it; it's true! And it's rank dishonesty, that's what it is! You've robbed me, you've robbed my mother, you've robbed your own children! The papers will call you a-- STEVEN. [_Interrupting._] That's not true! I had control of your money--to do with as I choose, and I did what I thought was for the best. LOUISE. You've never done anything for me that wasn't for the worst! [_Walking up and down excitedly._ GEORGIANA. Louise! LOUISE. It's true! If I can save a cent out of this ruin, I'll take it and the children away from you! I'll never live with you again! I'll show you up to all your smart friends who've snubbed me! I'll send you to state prison if I can! [_Sits in the arm-chair down Left._ COAST. Shut up, Lou! You'd better get a little legal advice before you start on that track. GEORGIANA. Louise! [_Goes to_ LOUISE. LOUISE. Well, what have _you_ got to say? My mother brought _you_ up, was a second mother to your brother who ruined us, but you've got _your_ money, I suppose. You've been clever enough to keep _your_ money in your own hands,--you and he will always have enough! [_Crying hysterically._ GEORGIANA. _Will_ you listen to me and let me say what I'm trying to? LOUISE. [_Bursting into floods of tears, overwhelmed with sympathy for herself._] He's broken my heart! That's what he's done; broken my heart!